Congratulations to Rohan Nune for being named one of the top 300 middle school innovators in the Thermo-Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge! Rohan was selected from the nearly 2,000 students from 48 states, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands who entered the contest. Rohan was nominated to enter the Thermo Fisher JIC by both the Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair and the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair.

Rohan completed his project, “Powering the Future: Iron-Based Batteries for Sustainable Energy Storage”, while he was an 8th grader at Leona Libby Middle School in West Richland. Each of the Top 300 Junior Innovators will receive a $125 award from DoD STEM, plus a prize package that includes a one-year subscription to Wolfram Mathematica software, courtesy of Wolfram Research.

He is now in the running to be one of the top 30 finalists chosen to compete for more than $100,000 in awards and prizes. Finalists will be announced September 18. Best of luck Rohan!

You can learn more about the Thermo-Fisher JIC on the Society for Science website.